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- Type: Article
- Author: James Stairs
- Category: Work Abroad
Born into war in Lebanon, Doctors Without Borders veteran Richard Zereik knows what it means to be a refugee. The central prison in Georgetown, Guyana, was much like one might imagine. High walls and filthy cells, an overcrowded courtyard, a shack in...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Roop Gill
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
Is travelling solo a dying art? Being enrolled in a program with avid travellers from 44 nationalities definitely has its perks: you can brush up on your second (third or fourth) language, you can try homemade cuisine from all over the world, you have...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Trina Moyles
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
Trina learns the true meaning of the phrase "no hurry in Africa." Seven months of volunteering in Kabale, a small dusty town nestled in the green terraced hills of southwestern Uganda, as a writer with the Kigezi Healthcare Foundation (KIHEFO) and...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Alyssa McDonald
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
I ask myself if I am crazy on a daily basis. I am buying a one-way ticket to Tanzania. It's more expensive than a return flight, and it's definitely one of the scariest things I have ever done. I have no return date and since leaving a surprisingly...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Leah Davidson
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
Making the most of a summer overseas. 1. Starting my microenterprise project. Every day for two to three hours, I teach a class on leadership and business to a group of 10 to 15 girls in the rural district of San Pedro de Sano. I also work on their...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Leah Davidson
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
Leah's top reasons for spending a summer abroad. My friends were all telling me about their summer internships working for start-ups, investment banks, and consulting companies. “What are you doing, Leah?” they asked. For the longest time, I’ve...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Emily Fritz
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Guidelines for getting the most out of your new environment. As I’m getting ready to go abroad and work as an au pair, I constantly think about the new German village that I will be living in. The excitement of finding that perfect café, the perfect...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Greg Snell
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
How to ease the transition overseas. There is a point where all travellers will eventually cross continents looking for that next adventure, the new job, the opportunity to see and do more. Anyone travelling overseas will have this transition—the...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Greg Snell
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Greg reflects on whether he has what it takes to do one of the "best jobs in the world." Two months ago, I joined 8,000 something video applicants with the hopes of obtaining one of Tourism Australia’s Best Jobs in the World as “Wildlife Caretaker” on...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Vivien Lee
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
The best vantage points to see the city from a new angle. Taiwanese nightmarkets light up the evening with their colourful signs. Multiple nightmarkets and buildings added up make the night view of Taipei a spectacularly shiny one. I have four spots to...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Stephanie Liauw
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
Valuable tips for those heading to Takoradi for the first time. Takoradi is the third largest city in Ghana in the Western region, and growing rapidly due to recent discovery of oil in the region. For the six weeks that I’m in Ghana, I’ve had the...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Allison Burney
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
The realities of a life overseas. If you’ve been keeping up with the rest of my series, you might be starting to feel (and rightly so!) that my blog posts seem to be all over the place—up one month and down the next, switching from topic to topic....
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- Type: Article
- Author: Judi Zienchuk
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
Judi explores the best sights that Ho Chi Minh City has to offer. As English is the most widely spoken language on the planet, it’s possible to travel around even remote regions of Southeast Asia without getting lost in translation, depending on the...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Vivien Lee
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Vivien learns to challenge stereotypes; both her own and others. Before travelling to anywhere in the world for the first time, you might search for and ask friends for some information on your destination. You will want to understand the place more so...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Eva Zhu
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
Overcoming the unknown as a solo female traveller. As a female, there are a myriad of concerns about traveling solo that the opposite sex simply do not (in most cases) have to worry about. From date rape drugs to kidnappings, what we see in the media...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Andrea Dinan
- Category: Work Abroad
Careful review of your contract can prevent unnecessary surprises at your new job overseas. Reviewing a contract for that long-anticipated teaching gig is an exciting and often nerve-wracking time. This is your last chance to make sure everything is on...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Cat Mills
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
An outsider's guide to working abroad in one of the world's greatest cities. When I was a teenager I dreamed of moving to London and working for the BBC. I wasn’t sure what the job itself would be, but I knew it would be important; like documentary...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Kayla Kozan
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
Adapting plans: when social media is the Sunday market. Fresh out of business school with a head full of textbook answers, I pictured myself working with young entrepreneurs in Ghana. How to best leverage your e-commerce start up? Easy. Press release...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Stephanie Liauw
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
Once the "honeymoon" wears off, what's the best way to settle in? The first couple of weeks in a new country are the most daunting period; anxiety, stress and excitement all mixed into one. After the initial feelings have worn off, it is easy to feel...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Judi Zienchuk
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
When I booked a flight to Vietnam, I knew (somewhere in the back of my mind) that it would mean arriving in a communist country and therefore a one-party state. However, I had no idea what this actually meant and how much it would affect my experience...
